ADDIS ABABA – Africa’s youthful population and digital momentum position the continent as both vulnerable and uniquely poised to accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to UN’s 2025 SDG report. With just five years remaining until the 2030 deadline, the report reveals that only one-third of the goals are showing sufficient progress….
Geneva/New York — In 2024, 89 per cent of infants globally – about 115 million – received at least one dose of the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP)-containing vaccine, and 85 per cent – roughly 109 million – completed all three doses, according to new national immunization coverage data released today by the World Health…
Hundreds of thousands of mourners lined the streets of downtown Tehran on Saturday for the funeral of the head of the Revolutionary Guard and other top commanders and nuclear scientists killed during a 12-day war with Israel. The caskets of Guard’s chief Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the Guard’s ballistic missile program, Gen. Amir…
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) held a three-day capacity-building workshop in Lilongwe, supported by the African Union (AU), COMESA, and International IDEA, aimed at strengthening electoral risk management and addressing gender-based violence in elections. This initiative comes as the country intensifies preparations for the 16 September 2025 General Election. Speaking at the official opening of…
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images A Ukrainian serviceman looks through the scope of a rifle shortly after the incursion into Kursk Ukraine’s top military commander says its forces are still defending a small area of territory inside Russia that it captured almost a year ago. In August 2024 Ukraine launched…
CBS News Live CBS News 24/7 Live Washington — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine are holding a news conference Sunday morning to give updates on President Trump’s decision to strike a trio of Iranian nuclear sites. Mr. Trump announced Saturday evening that the U.S. had launched strikes against Iranian…
The grand military parade that United States President Donald Trump had been wanting for years barrelled down Washington, DC’s Constitution Avenue, with tanks, troops and a 21-gun salute, the spectacle played out against a counterpoint of protests around the country by those who decried the Republican leader as a “dictator” and “would-be king”. Trump, also…
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